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Novell is dead. Long Live Novell

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/04/28/usa-court-software-idINL2N0NH0Y420140428


U.S. top court declines to hear Microsoft antitrust case
Mon, Apr 28 2014

By Lawrence Hurley

WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday brought
an end to Novell Inc's antitrust claims against Microsoft Corp that date
back 20 years to the development of Windows 95 software.

By declining to hear Novell's appeal, the court left intact a 10th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from September 2013 in favor of Microsoft.

The court of appeals unanimously affirmed the dismissal of Novell Inc's
claims that Microsoft violated the Sherman Antitrust Act when it decided
not to share its intellectual property while developing its Windows 95
operating system.

Novell was seeking more than $3 billion.

Since the 1990s, Microsoft has been pursued by government prosecutors,
consumers and competitors for alleged antitrust violations when it was
widely considered a mighty monopolist.

The Novell case, which was first filed in 2004, was over Microsoft's
decision not to share with Novell details about its Windows operating
system. Novell claimed that its suite of applications, including
WordPerfect, suffered as a result of Microsoft withholding the
information.

Novell alleged that Microsoft used its market power in operating systems
to promote its own applications.

In a 2011 trial, a jury could not come to a verdict, but afterward U.S.
District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore, who oversaw consolidated
proceedings against Microsoft, ruled in favor of the software giant.

Novell appealed Motz's ruling to the 10th Circuit but the court affirmed
Motz's ruling, finding that Microsoft was under no obligation to share
sensitive information with a competitor.

The case is Novell v. Microsoft, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 13-1042.
(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Additional reporting by Andrew Longstreth;
Editing by Howard Goller and Alden Bentley)

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Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Rob <meer5tt@privacy.net> - 2014-04-29 04:57 -0700
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-29 17:14 +0000
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-29 12:23 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-04-29 13:28 -0500
  Google has done what Novell couldn't.  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-29 13:53 -0700
    Re: Google has done what Novell couldn't. "Poisoned by Win 8.1" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> - 2014-04-29 16:34 -0700
      Re: Google has done what Novell couldn't. DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-04-29 19:45 -0400
      What nuclear reactor ?  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-29 19:03 -0700
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell K Wills <compuelf@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 04:08 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-04-30 12:14 +0100
      Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-04-30 12:17 -0500
    Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-30 07:01 -0500
  Re: Novell is dead. Long Live Novell Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:05 -0700

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